95. #wissinge#, instruction, guidance; i.e. penance. 96. #acxen#: referring to the ceremony of giving the ashes to the congregation on Ash Wednesday. #bilien#, pertain, are associated with: comp. ‘þe six werkes of þesternesse · þe bilige to nihte,’ OEH ii. 15/3. 97. #saccum#, a penitential garment of sackcloth, worn over other clothes, thus differing from cilicium, hair-shirt; S. Jerome, Ep. 44. The writer has omitted after it, plagas, the ‘smerte dintes’ of the next line, ‘disceplines,’ 62/35. 99. #siðes#: read siðe; the superfluous _s_ is due to the initial of the next word: in #liðe#, 100, final _þ_ has been lost before initial _þ_: #swiðere#, 119, owes its final _re_ to the beginning of the next word. #shereðuresdaies#, of Maundy Thursday: corresponds to OWScand. skíriþórsdagr, purification Thursday, but was wrongly connected with ME. scheren, to shear. The form in _sh_ is native or naturalized; see Björkman, 125, and comp. 99/73. 100. #sinne bendes#: see 81/67 note. #crepe to cruche#, creeping to the cross; the adoration of the cross on Good Friday; Rock, Church of our Fathers, iii^2. 88. 101. #lange fridai#: #langa frīgedæg#, an ancient name for Good Friday, so called from its fast and observances. #gon--fantston#, appears to refer to some procession of the laity at the blessing of the font on Easter Eve, perhaps local, as it is not noticed in the service books. Brand, Popular Antiquities (Bohn), i. 158, quotes from Googe’s translation of the Regnum Papisticum of Kirchmayer, ‘Nine times about the font they marche, and on the Saintes do call; | Then still at length they stande, and straight the priest begins withall.’ Of course there was a procession of the clergy to and from the font, Frere, Use of Sarum, i. 149. In ‘ðor-of in esterne be we wunen | Seuene siðes to funt cumen,’ GE 3289, the reference is to the procession made to the font every afternoon in Easter week. The font is the symbol of the sepulchre because, as Durandus, vi. De Sabbato sancto, says, ‘fit hac die baptismus, quia in eo consepulti sumus christo.’ It is noteworthy that nothing is said of the Easter Sepulchre, which was probably not instituted before the fourteenth century. 103. #tweire kinne#, of two kinds; OE. #twēgra cynna#, but kinnes, 104, 105 is a _sing. gen._ in form, with plural meaning: see 81/80 note. 105. #do#: comp. 122/185 note. 106. #faire him#, becoming to him; ‘bicumeliche,’ 86/116. 107. #underfo#, used absolutely, like mod. receive, to communicate: comp. the full expression 86/117. #himseluen to hele#, to his spiritual well-being. #here oðer#, one of these two; but #eiðer þese wedes#, 86/126 can only mean, at this date, each, i.e. both of these garments. If eiðer be a mistake for oðer, then þis wede must be read in l. 125. 109. #sinbote# is explained by ll. 119, 120.